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Amended VAT guidelines have major consequences for VAT position holding companies

December 11, 2024
The changes will have a major impact on all organizations with holding activities and action will need to be taken before July 1, 2025.

European Commission publishes proposal for a directive to introduce a common corporate tax framework (BEFIT)

September 20, 2023
This is the third attempt by the European Commission to harmonize the corporate income tax base.

Bill on Minimum Profit Tax Act 2024 (Pillar 2) presented to Lower House of Parliament

June 2, 2023
The Netherlands is thus the first EU Member State to have submitted a bill to transpose EU Directive 2022/253 of December 14, 2022 into national legislation.

Internet consultation on legislative proposal to implement Pillar 2 in the Netherlands

October 25, 2022
The legislative proposal aligns with the proposed EU Directive; in this respect, it is largely similar to the OECD Global Anti-Base Erosion (‘GloBE’) Model Rules.

Bill on implementation of EU Directive on the exchange of information in the digital platform economy (DAC7)

April 6, 2022
The bill introduces a reporting obligation for digital platform operators to provide the Dutch tax authorities with information about certain users (‘sellers’) on their platform.

European Commission’s response to the OECD Pillar 2 model rules

December 23, 2021
On December 22, 2021, the European Commission published a proposed EU directive to incorporate Pillar Two into EU law. The rules generally mirror the OECD model rules released on December 20, 2021 but ...

Report of the Conduit Companies Committee

November 26, 2021
The report contains 15 recommendations, divided into six tax and nine non-tax policy options. At the same time, the Deputy Minister of Finance sent the government’s response to this report to the Lowe ...

Internet consultation on taxpayer status measure for reverse hybrid entities

March 5, 2021
On March 4, 2021 the Deputy Minister of Finance launched, among other things, a public internet consultation on the taxpayer status measure for ‘reverse hybrid entities’ and several related accompanyi ...

CJEU: no VAT deduction for ‘setting aside’ raised capital after unsuccessful acquisition of a participation

November 16, 2020
If the intended acquisition of a participation cannot be realized, for example due to the corona crisis, we recommend that you examine the VAT implications of this in more detail.

Postponement of the e-commerce EU VAT package to 1 July 2021 confirmed.

July 23, 2020
The postponement of the effective date of the e-commerce EU VAT package to 1 July 2021 has been confirmed by the Council of the EU on 22 July 2020. E-commerce businesses will need to get their data, s ...

Q&A: Tax policy developments for governments and multinationals

July 17, 2020
The European Green Deal suggests that well-designed tax reforms can boost economic growth and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ensuring an effective carbon pricing.

Guidelines on Mandatory Disclosure Rules (DAC6) published

July 1, 2020
During the parliamentary debates on the Dutch implementation of the Mandatory Disclosure Rules (DAC6) it was acknowledged that, in practice, it can be difficult to determine whether or not a certain a ...

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